Example sentences of "she had take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia knew she had to take the threat seriously . |
| 2 | She had to take the chance before it was too late . |
| 3 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 4 | She had taken the sign MEN from the Gents , and put it on her office door . |
| 5 | Giovanna , smiling as she left , said that the bambina had never stirred and she had taken the opportunity to do a pile of ironing . |
| 6 | Comfort had been in Paris for a fortnight , officially to sort out details of an exhibition of her paintings , and she had taken the opportunity to replenish her depleted wardrobe and see as many of her old friends as she could find . |
| 7 | She had taken the opportunity to read so much about the social work of the Army she felt she knew the history , background , areas of special need inside out in theory . |
| 8 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 9 | She was the daughter of an earl , well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil , and he had known her for as long as he could remember . |
| 10 | Her husband Richard , 33 , from Gosport , told Portsmouth Crown Court she had taken the money to repay debts . |
| 11 | She had taken the Shills ' two older children , a boy and a girl aged six and four , for a Christmas treat , along with her two grandchildren , had then gone shopping to enjoy the festive lights of Windsor . |
| 12 | Having asked that she should not be disturbed she had taken the overdose in her room . |
| 13 | Just over five minutes later she had taken the tablet and Felipe was pouring her a cup of tea , and Maggie looked at him in amusement . |
| 14 | Sanity returning , he ran after her , to find that she had taken the key out of the lock — and locked the door from the outside , against him . |
| 15 | He stood up when she came in and waited until she had taken the chair on the other side of the desk . |
| 16 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 17 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |
| 18 | When she had taken the trouble to go to school , lessons had often been called off because someone had vandalized some necessary piece of equipment . |
| 19 | She had taken the trouble first to find out what she could about the topic from the notes given , and had thought about it carefully , so that in a real sense she was herself involved in what was happening in the classroom . |
| 20 | Even then she had taken the initiative . |
| 21 | If she had taken the jeep , she knew she would have been tempted to drive it to the beach and look in at Pepe 's . |
| 22 | One , Destina Momrosier of Port-au-Prince , said she had taken the boat several times , usually with 500-600 other passengers , but she estimated that as many as 1,500 probably could fit aboard . |
| 23 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 24 | Agnes began to cry , quietly at first , then it mounted into sobs , then almost into hysteria and in it she gabbled out incoherently to the three gaping sisters what had transpired from the time she had taken the linen across to the house . |
| 25 | Miss Grimes had certainly been glad of the presents but she had not really seemed as destitute and lonely as Ianthe had expected — perhaps secretly even hoped — and she found herself resenting the way she had taken the violets . |
| 26 | She had taken the curtain in one hand when she heard a man 's voice . |